Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)‘Ah! what avails the sceptered race!’
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Ah! what the form divine!
What every virtue, every grace!
Rose Aylmer, all were thine.
May weep, but never see,
A night of memories and sighs
I consecrate to thee.